Freedom Riders, the PBS documentary based on a landmark book by University of South Florida St. Petersburg Professor Ray Arsenault, was among three films credited for winning the American Experience ...

Stanley Nelson’s Emmy Award winning documentary recounts the organization, intentions and lasting influence of mostly young college students who challenged segregation in the Deep South in 1961. ...

Originally produced as a documentary in 2010. Companion book: Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, c2011 ; Abridged ed. Based in part ...

Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson’s wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...